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Well, this one does: just leave the adapter out and cram the phone down into the dock.Which brings me to my first complaint: for the price this should include a full compliment of dock adapters for the various iPods and iPhones.The different colored lights are somewhat useful because it shows us clearly which dock port to use for each of our phones (hers in the case and my 3G outside of the case).The sound is reasonable for a clock radio.I'm dissappointed that a lot of the functions have to be operated from the remote (sleep timer). and that the remote is a cheesy "chicklet" type.Would I buy again. I did. My wife has a 1G 16GB iPhone that she carrys in a leather belt holster. Nothing else we found would let her dock the phone without removing the phone from the case. I got a second one for our second bedroom in the house.
This is something that is very wonderful for individuals with 2 ipods. Other companies need to make more.
They're useless. It could have been so much better; still could be saved. JVC designers didn't do a very good job on several area's, although the overall look, sound, and dual nature is fantastic.Complaints:1) Bright display is too bright at night. the aux input is nice (I have an ipod shuffle too). Most of the functionality is built into the remote.
Again, dumb dumb dumb.On the plus side, the sound is great for a bedside radio. It would be cool if they would work like the color organ lights of the 60's and 70's.throbbing in sync to magical mystery tour music, but they don't. Docks are nice. Wrong color too.
make the remote double as a bong, and you'd really have something.4) The time clock, and the AM radio. I would have given this 4.5 stars. Fix the display brightness problem, make a new remote, and I will overlook the useless lights and AM radio/clock issue. The locations of the buttons make no sense whatsoever (ZIPPO)., and there is an ipod looking silkscreen on the front of the membrane of the remote, made to simulate and look like an ipod, but it doesn't behave at all like an ipod. Nice radio though.JVC managers shot the engineer too soon on this product. hard to tell the AM radio from the clock display, because they both have "AM" in them. There is not a good reason why the display couldn't be fixed.
Great main unit JVC, so why did you stop when it came to the remote.3) I have yet to find a use for the colored lights. I'm an engineer. And, the best thing. I know, because I've done it myself in commercial products which I've designed.2) The remote was obviously created by a retarded chimp throwing darts at a chalkboard.
That sucks. you can turn off the display (ECO mode) sort of, but then, the ipod charging quits too. doing nothing. I have several complaints. The folks at JVC messed this up greatly; next time JVC, you can hire my cat. it has two docks. It does that. They have doors to cover the dock when not in use which is a nice touch.
I would make them pulsate to the music.
Too bad the remote stinks.
Do I like this product.
They just sort of sit there.
yes and no.I bought this for the purpose of having a nice alarm clock and charging station for my iphone and ipod touch.
she can do better than your dart-tossing monkey.
It should be red.
so you wake up with ipods not charged.
but with crappy remote and brightness issue, I give it only 2.5 or 3 stars.
And each can be set with its own source for alarm, iPod (#1 or #2) or radio. For example, the alarm function does not work when the unit is left "on" at night. The alarm on the iPod will not wake the JVC - only the JVC can wake the iPod. Philosophically I have a big problem with this, since remotes can be lost or broken and then you're left with a big expensive paperweight. I'm irked that one of the few buttons on the unit is dedicated to the rather silly and pointless color LED function, but I can't weight that too heavily in the review. But for a bedroom system where high audio quality isn't a necessity, this unit is just fine. But what's most egregious is that the remote is one of the worst remotes I've ever used.
The buttons are clearly labeled and simple to operate, which is nice for those features that can be accessed with the buttons on the unit (more about that later). Half the time or more, the buttons don't even respond, which makes setting alarms or tuning the radio station incredibly tedious and frustrating.So overall the unit is pretty good at providing an easy way to get rid of clutter and bring iPod music into the bedroom, and it throws in some nice clock features. Until that is fixed I would not recommend anyone buy this at any price. But its reliance on the poorly designed remote kills this unit dead.
Of course, you can just leave the JVC unit on and set the iPod itself to be the alarm, but this would only work with one of the iPods because the source would have to be set the night before.All functions are handled through a small, one line monochrome LCD on the unit. So if you like to listen to your iPod when you're drifting off to sleep, and like to wake to the radio, you can't do it unless you take extra care to set up the sleep timer on the clock radio.When an iPod is used as an alarm, the unit wakes and presses "play" for you, then fades the music in from 0 to whatever volume is set under the alarm function (nice detail, that - you don't have to wake to the same volume that you last used). Bigger than I've seen for almost any electronic device ever. But there is nothing graphical to suggest that the menus are hierarchical, so it does take a bit of practice to understand exactly what is going on, especially when setting alarms.The remote is where we start running into the fatal flaws of this unit. Very cheap feeling with almost no tactile response. Sadly, JVC made the choice to have some functions - almost all functions, actually, accessible only from the remote. I would compare the sound quality to a $20-$30 set of computer speakers. This is pretty handy for couples, for instance, who have separate wakeup times (which I imagine is the primary audience for this device).
This makes sense, but is somewhat complicated for those that like to wake to particular music. Not what I'd expect at this price, but no different than most clock radios. It does have a bass enhancement feature, but I found that this decreased audio quality. Though not removable, the power cord is plenty long from both plug to brick and brick to unit, so hiding the brick somewhere shouldn't be too much trouble for most.The sound quality is adequate. Maybe that won't matter for some folks, but in my case I put the unit on my bookshelf and am not able to put the power brick on the floor because I have to run the cable through the back of the bookcase. The interface is done through hierarchical menus that, once you understand, are fairly easy to navigate. The glossy finish does come off as a bit cheap actually, but overall the unit is handsome. The radio has good reception with the two included antenna (one FM and one AM).The clock features are just a little better than your average $20 clock radio.
And when it comes to clock/alarm integration with the iPod, there are some real problems. But before I get into those reasons, a quick basic overview;The JVC Dual Dock is a fairly compact unit, and the overall quality is fine. To add insult to injury, JVC decided that of the limited buttons on the unit itself, one of them is dedicated to the color LEDs, which is just stupid. But if you want to wake to a particular song on the iPod you'll have to leave that song playing on the iPod or set the alarm on the iPod seperately to have it play. The buttons are the sealed sort - all under a common piece of plastic.
I bought this because I wanted to reduce the clutter of multiple chargers and cords and docks, and I wanted the convenience of a set of powered speakers for my iPhone 3G and clock radio all in one. While this sounds great, it falls a little short of what it could have been, since having 5 or even 10 alarms would have been just as easy, but added a lot of flexibility to those with more complicated schedules. While I can say that my basic needs were met with this, I can't give it a ringing endorsement for a number of reasons. Up to three alarms can be set, each with its own setting of daily, everyday or weekday. The one real downside of the design of the JVC Dual Dock is the power brick; it is absolutely huge.
The power cords do not detach from the unit, so that means I have to have the power brick hidden behind the unit on the bookshelf. And speaking of price this should be closer to $80-$90, better reflecting the value of a $20 clock radio combined with a $20 set of speakers with a pair of $30 docks.
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